Strategy: Theory and Practice - Softcover

Stewart R. Clegg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8132110315 ISBN 13: 9788132110316

Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Written by a team of leading academics, this groundbreaking new text eill prove an invaluable guide to the core elements elements of your strategy courses, while encouraging you to challenge conventional thinking about the field. Key features: Provides a coherent and engaging overview of the established 'classics' of strategy, while taking an innovative approach to contemporary issues such as power and politics, ethics, branding, globalisation, collaboration, and the global financial crisis. A unique critical perspective that encourages you to reflect on the strategy process and strategic decision-making. Packed with learning features, including a wealth of international case studies and accompanying discussion questions. A website offering a full Instructors' Manual, video cases, podcasts and full-text journal articles. Whether you re an undergraduate or postgraduate student, Stratey: Theory and Practice provides you with all you need to know to succeed in your course and reflect on your future practice.

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About the Author

Born in Bradford, England, Stewart Clegg was Reader at Griffith University (1976-84), Professor at the University of New England (1985-9), Professor at the University of St. Andrews (1990-3), Foundation Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, (1993-6) before moving to UTS. He is Research Director of CMOS (Centre for Management and Organisation Studies) Research at UTS, and holds a small number of Visiting Professorships at prestigious European universities and research centres. He is one of the most published and cited authors in the top-tier journals in the Organization Studies field and the only Australian to be recognised a by a multi-method ranking, as one of the world s top-200 Management Guru s in What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking by Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, and H. James Wilson (2003), Harvard: Harvard Business Review Press. Because the central focus of his theoretical work has always been on power relations he has been able to write on many diverse and ubiquitous topics because power relations are everywhere! He is the author of two widely used textbooks on Management & Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (with Martin Kornberger andTyrone Pitsis) and Strategy: Theory and Practice (with Chris Carter, Martin Kornberger and Jochen Schweitzer), both published by Sage. He is also the chief editor of the Handbook of Organization Studies (with Cynthia Hardy, Walter F. Nord and Thomas B. Lawrence), Handbook of Power (with Mark Haugaard) and Handbook of Macro-Organizational Behaviour (with Cary Cooper), all published by Sage. In 2012 he will publish a book with Oxford University Press on The Virtues of Leadership: Contemporary Challenges for Global Managers (with Arménio Regio, and Miguel Pinha e Cunha), as well as a set of eight 'Major Works" on Power and Organizations and Political Power and Organizations, jointly edited with Mark Haugaard. Outside work he enjoys cultural pursuits, travel, and current affairs.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8132110315
• ISBN 13: 9788132110316
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488